Membership Options

We would love you to join us in contributing to the growth and awareness of NVC in the UK.  We offer two types of membership as well as volunteering opportunities.

NVC Matters CIC is a not-for-profit organisation. Our activities are funded directly through donations, NVC resource sales via our shop and your membership fees.

 

Log in here if you have a basic (free) account or are already a member

 SUPPORTER MEMBER

  • Contribute to NVC Matter's ability to make NVC more known and accessible in the UK
  • Add your practice group to this website ( NVC Matters Facilitator Mentor needed)
  • Submit news or blog items for us to consider featuring on the website

We ask for a minimum of £20 per membership year to cover our admin costs (Pay on submitting your membership form).

Please consider giving an extra donation - if your finances and generosity allow to help us offer UK wide NVC services. You can make an extra donation here

FACILITATOR MEMBER

  • Feature your profile on our Facilitator page
  • Advertise unlimited NVC events on this site
  • List your practice groups
  • Invitation to annual facilitator gathering
  • Your events also get linked and shared in our newsletters and on social media channels
  • Submit news or blog items for us to consider featuring on the website

For a full year of membership, we ask for £249. Please contact us for access to discount codes if needed. We don't want this fee to be a barrier to you joining.

We welcome questions and, to support efficiency of volunteers time, please check FAQs below for further questions you may have before contacting us

VOLUNTEERING

  • Receive collaboration skills training
  • Have the satisfaction of contributing to a power-distributed team of people doing their best to live NVC consciousness as they work
  • Automatically become a Supporter Member 
  • Invitation to the annual facilitator gathering
  • If you are a CNVC Certification Candidate, working with us could count towards your requested contribution to the NVC-UK network and your portfolio

You can learn more about the way we work and how to become a volunteer here

FAQS

To become a Facilitator Member, we ask for the following criteria to be met:

  • 50+ days of NVC learning
  • 30+ hours experience of leading NVC sessions
  • Agreeing to our code of ethics (you can find this on the footer of the website)
  • Agreement to pay our fee

How many hours count as one day?

  • 6-8 hours of training counts as one day.

What counts towards the 50 days (300-400 hours) NVC learning

  • With whom - You need to have completed training with at least 3 different CNVC certified trainers. The rest can be with independently-trained Facilitators
  • In-person - A minimum of 40 (240 - 320 hours) of the days need to be in-person 
  • Online - Up to the equivalent of 15 days (90-120 hours) can be online as long as they are interactive and participatory. 
  • Residential At least one 5-day-long in-person residential (or several in-person weekend residentials) need to be included.

What counts towards the 30 hours of sharing NVC?

Up to 8 of these hours could be offering one-to-one sessions or mediations.

The rest need to be a mix of

  • Leading practice groups
  • Offering NVC trainings

Following completion of registration which includes completing the registering form and making your payment, you will receive confirmation that your application has been received. 

Assuming you fulfil our requirements for membership, your application will be accepted and you will receive a final confirmation and will have access to the relevant areas of the site where you can add your profile etc, upload your events etc.

If for some reason we are unable to accept your membership, any payment you make will be refunded in full.

The fees are there to support the continued running and improvement of this website.

Whilst we hope that most Facilitator members will have the willingness and capacity to pay our full annual rate, and find it excellent value for money, we recognise that this won't be the case for everyone. If you only offer a few events per year where you typically offer them at low cost and/or for free or paying our annual rate is unaffordable to you, please do email us to request a discount code, our membership administrator can discuss this with you. 

Following registration, and payment of the membership fee you will receive confirmation that your membership has been received and accepted.

Whether joining as a facilitator or supporter member or simply donating to our cause, if you want to pay directly into our bank account, here are the details:

Account Name: NVC Matters UK CIC
Account number: 65974126
Sort Code: 08-92-99

You can join at any time of the year. Renewal of membership is 31st March yearly. If you join mid-year, you pay pro rata.

If you have any questions about membership please contact Rik at membership@nvc-uk.com.